Ian Byrne MP: written questions
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Written questions
Food: LabellingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50227More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April to Question 20692 on food labelling, what his timescale is for a decision on (a) next steps and (b) responding to the consultation.
Answer: A public consultation on fairer food labelling was undertaken last year by the previous Government. We are now carefully considering all responses to the consultation before deciding on next steps. We recognise that this is an important matter and will re...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFoie Gras: ImportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48191More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timeline is to ban the import of foie gras.
Answer: The Government shares the British public's high regard for animal welfare and has made clear that the production of foie gras from ducks or geese using force feeding raises serious welfare concerns. We have been clear that we will use our Trade Strategy t...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity Allowance and Maternity PayDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48190More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of (a) Statutory Maternity Pay and (b) Maternity Allowance.
Answer: Government spends approximately £3 billion a year on parental payments.The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions is required by law to undertake an annual review of benefits and State Pensions, including Statutory Maternity Pay and Maternity Allowance....
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordOlder PeopleDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48189More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure the perspectives of older people are included in her Department's policy decision-making.
Answer: We know that work helps everyone, including older people, play active and fulfilling roles in society while building financial security for retirement. That is why we are reformingemployment support to ensure it helps everyone who needs it. This includes ...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordIsrael: PalestiniansForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47847More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterpart in Israel on preventing the forced displacement of Palestinians in Masafer Yatta in the West Bank.
Answer: This government has been clear that stability in the West Bank is crucial. All sides should work to ensure a lowering of tension in the West Bank at this time. The risk of instability is serious and the need for de-escalation urgent. We continue to call o...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordTechnology: MonopoliesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47846More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle monopolistic practices in the technology sector.
Answer: On 1 January 2025 the Government implemented the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024. The Competition and Markets Authority now has new bespoke tools to address the market power of a small number of the largest technology firms and increas...
Answered 2 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDelivery Services: Crimes of ViolenceHome OfficeTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47845More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consider including retail home delivery drivers within the definition of assaults on retail workers.
Answer: Shop theft continues to increase at an unacceptable level, with more and more offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers. We will not stand for this. Everybody has a right to feel safe at their place of work.Through our Crime and Policing Bill...
Answered 2 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHealthy Start Scheme: ExpenditureDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46882More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department spent on the Healthy Start Scheme in the (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25 financial year.
Answer: The Department spent £86,382,173 on the Healthy Start scheme in 2023/24. Audited data on the Department’s spend on the Healthy Start scheme for the 2024/25 financial year is not yet available.
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordWork Capability Assessment: Terminal IllnessesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46881More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people with a terminal illness who do not have a claim under the Special Rules for Terminal Illness will be exempt from work-related activity requirements following the abolition of the Work Cap
Answer: We are currently consulting on how we should determine which individuals or groups of individuals should be exempt from the requirement to participate in conversations or any work-related requirements following the abolition of the Work Capability Assessm...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordWork Capability Assessment: Terminal IllnessesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46880More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people with a claim under the Special Rules for Terminal Illness will be exempt from work-related activity requirements following the abolition of the Work Capability Assessment.
Answer: We are currently consulting on how we should determine which individuals or groups of individuals should be exempt from the requirement to participate in conversations or any work-related requirements following the abolition of the Work Capability Assessm...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: Terminal IllnessesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46879More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of Universal Credit have a terminal condition but do not have a claim under the Special Rules for Terminal Illness.
Answer: The information is not available. The Universal Credit system is usually only informed of a terminal illness diagnosis through an application for the Special Rules for End of Life.
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: Terminal IllnessesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46878More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published in March 2025, whether people with a terminal illne
Answer: The Department supports people nearing the end of life through the Special Rules for End of Life (SREL). These rules enable people who are nearing the end of their lives to get faster, easier access to certain benefits, without needing to attend a medical...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: Terminal IllnessesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46877More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published in March 2025, whether people with a claim under th
Answer: The Department supports people nearing the end of life through the Special Rules for End of Life (SREL). These enable people who are nearing the end of their lives to get faster, easier access to certain benefits, without needing to attend a medical asses...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: Chronic IllnessesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46876More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, what the value will be of the additional premium in Universal Credi
Answer: As set out in the Green Paper, we will ensure that those with the most severe, life-long health conditions, who will never be able to work will see their incomes protected. We will also ensure this group face no future reassessment. We will set this out i...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPathways to Work: Public ConsultationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45931More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to widen the scope of the consultation for the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025.
Answer: The Pathways to Work Green Paper set out our plans and proposals for reform to health and disability benefits and employment support. This includes some urgently needed reforms to PIP eligibility and UC rates that are not subject to consultation but on wh...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordFood SupplyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45136More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights' publication Concluding observations on the seventh periodic report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain an
Answer: The Government has committed to develop an ambitious food strategy will set and deliver clear long-term outcomes that create a healthier, fairer, and more resilient food system. The strategy will work to improve the food system to provide more easily acce...
Answered 25 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordProstate Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45135More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve access to early prostate cancer (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment in deprived communities.
Answer: The Government understands that more needs to be done to improve outcomes for all people with prostate cancer. To achieve this, we have delivered an extra 40,000 operations, scans, and appointments each week during our first year in Government, as the fir...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRespiratory Diseases: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44607More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of treatment for lung conditions in the NHS: and what steps his Department is taking to include this treatment in the NHS 10-year plan.
Answer: In collaboration with a number of partners, the National Health Service has developed a package for systems containing the information and support required to help increase the number of people receiving early and accurate diagnosis for respiratory diseas...
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordTax Allowances: Low IncomesTreasuryTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44606More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of freezing the personal tax allowance on low income households.
Answer: The Government is committed to keeping taxes for working people as low as possible while ensuring fiscal responsibility. At our first Budget, we decided not to extend the freeze on personal tax thresholds which was implemented by the previous Government. ...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNurses: RegistrationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44605More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that only registered nurses can legally use the title nurse.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave to the Hon. Member for Ashfield on 27 March 2025 to Question 40615.
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordInternet: PrivacyDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44604More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if his Department will take steps to strengthen consumers' online privacy protections.
Answer: The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) apply to all online services that use personal data and require organisations to process personal data lawfully, fairly, transparently and securely, unless certain ...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordVoice over Internet Protocol: Older PeopleDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44158More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will meet with organisations representing older people to discuss the potential impact of the transition to digital telecommunications infrastructure on (a) older and (b) vulnerab
Answer: We are always happy to meet - as the Government has met several times - with organisations representing older people several times to discuss the impact of the industry-led analogue to digital migration on older and vulnerable people.Following engagement ...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSurgical Mesh Implants: CompensationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44150More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to provide redress to patients affected by pelvic mesh implants.
Answer: The Government is carefully considering the valuable work done by the Patient Safety Commissioner and the resulting Hughes Report, which set out options for redress for those harmed by valproate and pelvic mesh. This is a complex area of work, involving s...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPress: RegulationDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44137More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department plans to enhance press regulation.
Answer: In the UK, there exists an independent, self-regulatory system for the press and the Government therefore does not intervene in or oversee the work of press regulators. We are also clear, however, that with this freedom comes responsibility, and newspaper...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPress: RegulationDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44134More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of press regulation.
Answer: In the UK, there exists an independent, self-regulatory system for the press and the Government therefore does not intervene in or oversee the work of press regulators. We are also clear, however, that with this freedom comes responsibility, and newspaper...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
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